Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:29:43 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An imaginary conversation in the backroom of abookstore . . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 08:16 AM 2/3/2003 -0800, Samuel Lubell wrote:

>--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > Feel about Baen?
> > The folks who've published re-written Schmitz and
> > passed it off as =
> > original?
> > Sorry, I don't want to offend sensitive eyes reading
> > such <g>.
>
>There was an extensive debate over this in USENET.
>The editor, Eric Flint, made two telling points in my
>opinion.  The first was that this wasn't a choice
>between the edited Schmitz and an unedited volume but
>the edited Schmitz or not being able to publish the
>book.  The second point was that any publisher in the
>last 30 years could have reprinted the stories
>unedited if they thought these stories were so good
>that they didn't need editing, yet no one did (even
>some of the Telzey stories had not been reprinted.)

I followed the debate closely, and nowhere did Eric answer the basic issue:
he heavily edited the Schmitz books but they were published without any
real indication that they'd been changed from the original.

Elspeth